Acer Aspire One (the first model)
Well I just got a boss machine that will demolish any other computer hands down.
http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/garden/rock06.jpg
Best of all, it was free.
Where do you live? I am unsure if I can get rocks that size free, and delivery will definitely cost half a war.
I got a REALLY nice laptop at best buy after my old one died a slow terrible death. Quad core 1.4 ghz, 4 gb RAM, Amd radeon 6600m graphics, win7 Home (Or puppy linux from CD).
And it only cost me $450.
[quote]Where do you live? I am unsure if I can get rocks that size free, and delivery will definitely cost half a war.
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I live in the mountains so rocks are free and I can dead lift 1600 pounds.
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I got a REALLY nice laptop at best buy after my old one died a slow terrible death. Quad core 1.4 ghz, 4 gb RAM, Amd radeon 6600m graphics, win7 Home (Or puppy linux from CD).
And it only cost me $450.
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What is a slow and terrible death for a computer?
On the moon? The world record is just under 1200 lbs.
Fan bearing. It literally dies screaming 
Running Vista on it.
Watch out for the kotaku article… Any second now…
Asus Eee 1215B
12", AMD E-350, Radeon HD 6310, 4GB RAM, 500 GB HD, bluetooth and long wifi range and 6h + actual battery life (8h advertized, but that’s with like only running notepad.).
http://www.netbooknews.com/wp-content/2011/03/asus-1215b-review-550x389.jpg
I like it a lot except the mouse pad can be finicky. You can fix it by opening the front case and placing a bit of tape (youtube videos to help), very easy to fix actually. The most important part of a laptop is the quality of the keyboard (imo), and this one has a very nice one. Other than the mouse pad glitch (that can be easily fixed), I like it. If you need hard core 3D stay away from this piece of shit 
I mostly do network programs and the only thing graphically intensive in most of my applications is swing, so it’s perfect for me
- Desktop PC.
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Hardware acceleration fails, and i get dead lines on my LCD. dead lines turn into inch wide columns of black. I hook it up to the tv. some time later the rest of the graphics card craps out and renders random blue lines on top of everything(linux) or renders everything negative(windows).
it was really hard trying to see to copy everything off it.
Heh. My newest laptop just broke, and is going in for a repair. It was the HP SMART disk. Pure shit.
Therefore, I am now back on this old 17" duo 1.8 gHz, 4 GB DDR2 RAM that has burned (with flames!) down several times. It’s also full of my old code, and other crap. Really interesting to see how past me managed his OS.
how does a laptop actually catch fire?
my old one got pretty hot (which is probably the graphics crapped out). i took it apart for the speakers and fans, and i found that the heatsink (which you could club someone with) was full of dust.
Defect hardware. I now could use it for about an hour before the same thing happened. I have now borrowed my mothers. 
So meh bros really old acer actually had a vary common problem with overheating crazy hot and the cord melting.
Story Time:
So after a while my bro just say screw it and gave me the laptop I used it for a bit but the power cord stopped working (no it did not melt)
Later he asked for it back so I gave it to him. He bought 2 power cords for it. One day while he was using it he smelled that oh so reconizable burning electric and plastic smell. His power cord did not catch fire but was melting and smoking.
My dad who has more experience in computer then I do has a virus that on old machines will make them actually catch fire briefly. Modern stuff will not let things like this happen because of built in fail safes.
Same way other electronics do, short circuits in things that tend to catch fire. Like the battery. Clogged heatsink won’t do it, it’ll just shut down.
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I’ve had a PC catch fire on me once. But that was just a bad capacitor in the power supply that kind of exploded in a jet of sparks and fire. Quite spectacular actually
Thank god there were no curtains near it though and that I was at home at the time. It could have easily burned down the house.
Interestingly, the PC was spewing fire for a few seconds until it actually died and it came right back to life after I fitted a new power supply!
On topic: I currently mostly do my gaming development on a 3 YO Dell laptop with 6GB and a nice GPU, everything else I do on my newer Sony Vaio Z (awesome little machine). I’m slowly saying goodbye to the Dell for gaming development too though.
Capacitor explosion, expereinced that too on VGA. Magically after one week and I would burry it, it worked again until now.
My father used to explode industrial capacitors at a military firing range as part of his job. They’d set the capacitor up and get in a bunker.